Where: Jones County, North Carolina (35.0° N, 77.2° W: paleocoordinates 34.8° N, 69.1° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: New Bern Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From New Bern Formation, which unconformably underlies the Trent Formation. AGE: Late Eocene, following other collections; supposedly equivalent (in part) to Castle Hayne Limestone. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position in section.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified carbonate
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression
Reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: core,
• COLLECTOR: Unknown. REPOSITORY: USNM.
Primary reference: V. A. Zullo and G. R. Baum. 1979. Paleogene barnacles from the Coastal Plain of North Carolina (Cirripedia, Thoracica). Southeastern Geology 20(4):229-246 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 159941: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 12.08.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Thecostraca | |
Solidobalanus (Hesperibalanus) kellumi Zullo and Baum 1979 barnacle |